Jose Vizcarra was killed and a woman was wounded in the Gage Park neighborhood on the South Side early Saturday.
The two were outside in the 2200 block of West 50th Street about 2:10 a.m. when a vehicle pulled up and a male got out and shot them, according to Chicago Police.
Vizcarra, 20, was shot in the head, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:23 a.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He lived in the 400 block of North Hamlin.
The woman, 24, was shot in the foot, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was listed in fair condition, police said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Fifty-six-year-old Carl Jackson was chased and shot to death on the block where he lived in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood Friday evening, according to Chicago Police.
About 5:25 p.m., Jackson was chased into the hallway of an apartment building in the 1000 block of West 77th Street, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Once inside, the male suspect who chased him shot Jackson several times.
Jackson, who lived on the same block, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:45 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Jeremiah Curtis was killed and another man wounded in a Fuller Park neighborhood shooting Friday afternoon.
The men were outside about 1:45 p.m. in the 4200 block of South Princeton when someone in a passing vehicle opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
Curtis, 25, was shot in the buttocks and the other man, 39, was shot in the face. They were taken to Stroger Hospital, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Curtis, of the 8800 block of South Houston, was pronounced dead at 3:13 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. The older man was in fair condition, police said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Chicago Police say Miguel Williams and another man were shooting at each other early Wednesday in the West Pullman neighborhood, and both men were killed.
Chicago Police investigate in the 12300 block of South Halsted, where two men were shot to death early Wednesday. | Network Video Productions
Williams, 34, was sitting in a vehicle in the 12300 block of South Halsted at 12:41 a.m. when for some reason, he got into a shootout with a 28-year-old man standing in the street, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Williams was found with a gunshot wound to the chest in the 700 block of East 111th Street, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:06 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 7700 block of South Greenwood Avenue.
The younger man was shot in the chest, and was also pronounced dead at the scene, police said. His name has not been released as of Friday morning.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Eric Banks was was walking on the block where he lived in the killed in the Washington Park neighborhood when he was shot to death Wednesday afternoon.
Banks, 25, was on the sidewalk about 1:51 p.m. in the 5700 block of South Wabash when someone got out of a vehicle and fired at him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Banks, who lived on the same block, was shot multiple times in the back, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:36 p.m., authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Anthony Thorpe was killed and another man was seriously wounded in a shooting Thursday morning in the Englewood neighborhood.
A man was killed and another was seriously wounded early Thursday in Englewood. | Daniel Brown/Sun-Times
The shooting happened at 4:57 a.m. in the 5500 block of South Perry, according to Chicago Police.
Thorpe, 48, was shot in the mouth, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:10 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 500 block of West 14th Place.
Another man, 35, was shot in the shoulder and back, and was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition, police said.
Police said the shooting might have happened during a robbery.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
A man found dead in a garage after a series of arson fires early Friday in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood has been identified as 59-year-old Venancio Veracruz Benitez, who lived on the block.
Seven fires were set in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood early Friday, leaving a man dead and 39 people displaced, police said. | NVP News
The fires were all set about 3 a.m. Friday, according to Chicago Police. There were “seven total fires, all starting in garbage cans or combustibles near garage walls,” Fire Media Director Larry Langford said.
Benitez, a mexican immigrant, was found unresponsive in a garage that was set on fire in the 2100 block of West 21st Street, according to Fire Media Affairs and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Benitez was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:34 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy did not rule on cause and and manner of death pending further studies, but police classified the death as a homicide.
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An argument in a Back of the Yards street early Wednesday led to the death of Bruce E. Smith, who was shot on the block where he lived.
Smith, 51, was arguing with another man in the 5100 block of South Honore at 12:35 a.m. when that man pulled out a gun and shot him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Officers found Smith lying in the street, suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest, authorities said.
Smith, who lived on the same block, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:55 a.m., authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
The death of 4-year-old Manuel Aguilar, whose body was set on fire and left in a vacant Englewood home last month, has been ruled a homicide, and boy’s mother remains behind bars.
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Manuel was found Aug. 2 in a vacant home in the 1400 block of West Marquette Road. An autopsy found his death was the result of probable neglect, and was ruled “homicide by unspecified means,” the Cook County medical examiner’s office announced Wednesday.
His mother, 27-year-old Alyssa Garcia, was charged last month with felony counts of concealing a death and attempted residential arson, Chicago Police said. Also charged were Christian Camarena, 19; and Garcia’s live-in boyfriend, a 17-year-old boy related to Camarena.
Manuel’s malnourished, partially burned body was found by firefighters covered in a charred, blue blanket inside the vacant home where Garcia, her 17-year-old lover and his older brother were seen entering moments before with a container of lighter fluid, authorities said.
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Eddie Huff was shot to death early Tuesday while driving on the Near West Side.
The 29-year-old Huff was sitting in a vehicle that was stopped at a red light at 2:55 a.m. in the 200 block of South Western, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
A male suspect then walked up and fired shots into the vehicle, according to police.
Huff was shot in the abdomen, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:45 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 7300 block of South Winchester.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire
